HUMANITAS PRIZE NOMINEES
FEATURE NOMINEES
Humanitas Prizes in Feature Film began to be awarded in Drama, Comedy, and Family starting in 2018.
2024 ANDREW HAIGH: All of Us Strangers (Drama Feature)
2024 J.A. BAYONA, BERNAT VILAPLANA, JAIME MARQUES-OLARREAGA, NICOLÁS CASARIEGO: Society of the Snow (Drama Feature)
2024 LAURA CHINN: Suncoast (Drama Feature)
2024 CORD JEFFERSON: American Fiction (Comedy Feature)
2024 JOHN CARNEY: Flora and Son (Comedy Feature)
2024 DAVID HEMINGSON: The Holdovers (Comedy Feature)
2024 JOHN HOBERG, KAT LIKKEL, BRENDA HSUEH: Elemental (Family Feature)
2024 BILLY LUTHER: Frybread Face and Me (Family Feature)
2024 BETTINA GILOIS, HERNÁN JIMÉNEZ, ALEJANDRA MÁRQUEZ ABELLA: A Million Miles Away (Family Feature)
2023 REBECCA LENKIEWICZ: She Said (Drama Feature)
2023 MICHAEL REILLY & KEITH BEAUCHAMP and CHINONYE CHUKWU: Till (Drama Feature)
2023 PETER FARRELLY & BRIAN CURRIE & PETE JONES: The Greatest Beer Run Ever (Comedy Feature)
2023 MARK RIZZO: Champions (Comedy Feature)
2023 TOM HUANG: Dealing with Dad (Comedy Feature)
2023 PAUL FISHER and TOMMY SWERDLOW: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (Family Feature)
2023 DAVID HUDGINS: Gigi & Nate (Family Feature)
2022 ASGHAR FARHADI: A Hero (Drama Feature)
2022 SIÂN HEDER: CODA (Drama Feature)
2022 EDSON ODA: Nine Days (Drama Feature)
2022 DANIEL KWAN & DANIEL SCHEINERT: Everything Everywhere All At Once (Comedy Feature)
2022 DONALD MARTIN: Queen Bees (Comedy Feature)
2022 KEVIN JAKUBOWSKI: 8-Bit Christmas (Family Feature)
2022 KAY CANNON: Cinderella (Family Feature)
2022 CARLEY STEINER AND JOSH A. CAGAN: Spin (Family Feature)
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and public health conditions in LA County, the Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2021.
2020 TERRENCE MALICK: A Hidden Life (Drama Feature)
2020 MARIO CORREA and MATTHEW MICHAEL CARNAHAN: Dark Waters (Drama Feature)
2020 CHARLES RANDOLF: Bombshell (Drama Feature)
2020 LULU WANG: The Farewell (Comedy Feature)
2020 RICHARD CURTIS (story by JACK BARTH, RICHARD CURTIS): Yesterday (Comedy Feature)
2020 SCOTT Z. BURNS: The Laundromat (Comedy Feature)
2020 TYLER NILSON & MICHAEL SCHWARTZ: The Peanut Butter Falcon (Family Feature)
2020 ANDREW STANTON and STEPHANY FOLSOM (story by JOHN LASSETER, ANDREW STANTON, JOSH COOLEY, VALERIE LAPOINTE, RASHIDA JONES & WILL MCCORMACK, MARTIN HAYNES AND STEPHANY FOLSOM): Toy Story 4 (Family Feature)
2020 SERGIO PABLOS, JIM MAHONEY, ZACH LEWIS (story by SERGIO PABLOS): Klaus (Family Feature)
2019 RYAN COOGLER & JOE ROBERT COLE: Black Panther (Drama Feature)
2019 JOEL EDGERTON: Boy Erased (Drama Feature)
2019 ELIZABETH CHOMKO: What They Had (Drama Feature)
2019 SHANA FESTE: Boundaries (Comedy Feature)
2019 PETER CHIARELLI and ADELE LIM: Crazy Rich Asians (Comedy Feature)
2019 BO BURNHAM: Eighth Grade (Comedy Feature)
2019 ALEX ROSS PERRY and TOM MCCARTHY and ALLISON SCHROEDER (story by GREG BROOKER and MARK STEVEN JOHNSON): Christopher Robin (Family Feature)
2019 BRAD BIRD: Incredibles 2 (Family Feature)
2019 WES ANDERSON (story by WES ANDERSON, ROMAN COPPOLA, JASON SCHWARTZMAN, and KUNICHI NOMURA): Isle of Dogs (Family Feature)
2018 MARTIN MCDONAGH: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Drama Feature)
2018 EMILY V. GORDON & KUMAIL NANJIANI: The Big Sick (Comedy Feature)
2018 NOAH BAUMBACH: The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (Comedy Feature)
2018 ADRIAN MOLINA and MATTHEW ALDRICH (story by LEE UNKRICH, JASON KATZ, MATTHEW ALDRICH, ADRIAN MOLINA): Coco (Family Feature)
2018 ANITA DORON (story by DEBORAH ELLIS): The Breadwinner (Family Feature)
2017 ERIC HEISSERER: Arrival
2016 JULIET TOWHIDI: Testament of Youth
2016 MARGARET NAGEL: The Good Lie
2015 MISAN SAGAY: Belle
2015 BOB NELSON: Nebraska
2014 QUENTIN TARANTINO: Django Unchained
2014 JOHN GATINS: Flight
2013 ALEXANDER PAYNE, JIM RASH & NAT FAXON: The Descendants
2013 JOHN LOGAN: Hugo
2013 STEVE MCQUEEN and ABI MORGAN: Shame
2012 DANNY BOYLE & SIMON BEAUFOY: 127 Hours
2012 SCOTT SILVER, PAUL TAMASY & ERIC JOHNSON: The Fighter
2011 MARK BOAL: The Hurt Locker
2011 LYNN ROTH: The Little Traitor
2011 ALESSANDRO CAMON & OREN MOVERMAN: The Messenger
2010 JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY: Doubt
2010 DUSTIN LANCE BLACK: Milk
2010 GINA PRINCE-BYTHEWOOD: The Secret Life of Bees
2010 SIMON BEAUFOY: Slumdog Millionaire
2009 DIABLO CODY: Juno
2008 STEVEN KNIGHT: Amazing Grace
2007 ANN PEACOCK and ANDREW ADAMSON and CHRISTOPHER MARKUS & STEPHEN MCFEELY: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
2007 CHRISTOPHER CLEVELAND & BETTINA GILOIS: Glory Road
2006 DAVID MAGEE: Finding Neverland
2006 FRANK COTTRELL BOYCE: Millions
2005 ANDREW STANTON & BOB PETERSON & DAVID REYNOLDS: Finding Nemo
2005 GARY ROSS: Seabiscuit
2004 PETER HEDGES and CHRIS WEITZ & PAUL WEITZ: About A Boy
2004 RONALD HARWOOD: The Pianist
2003 AKIVA GOLDSMAN: A Beautiful Mind
2003 KRISTINE JOHNSON & JESSIE NELSON: I Am Sam
2002 LEE HALL: Billy Elliot
2002 STEPHEN GAGHAN Traffic (USA Films)
2001 NEIL JORDAN: The End of the Affair
2001 JOHN ROACH & MARY SWEENEY: The Straight Story
2000 STEVEN ZAILLIAN: A Civil Action
2000 ROBERT RODAT: Saving Private Ryan
1999 JAMES V. HART and MICHAEL GOLDENBERG: Contact
1999 RICHARD FRIEDENBERG: The Education of Little Tree
1998 CAMERON CROWE: Jerry Maguire
1998 JAN SARD (story by SCOTT HICKS): Shine
1997 GEORGE MILLER & CHRIS NOONAN: Babe
1997 BILLY BOB THORNTON & TOM EPPERSON: A Family Thing
1996 ERIC ROTH: Forrest Gump
1996 ROBERT BENTON: Nobody's Fool
1995 JERRY GEORGE & JIM SHERIDAN: In the Name of the Father
1995 STEVEN ZAILLIAN: Searching for Bobby Fischer
1995 WILLIAM NICHOLSON: Shadowlands
COMEDY TELEPLAY NOMINEES
2024 MYLES WARDEN, CAPRI SAMPSON: Act Your Age, “Snip Snip”
2024 MEREDITH SCARDINO, JANINE BRITO: Girls5eva, “Bomont”
2024 CESAR MAZARIEGOS: The Simpsons, ”Night of the Living Wage”
2023 FRANCESCA SLOANE & KAREN JOESPH ADCOCK: Atlanta, "The Goof Who Sat by the Door"
2023 STERLIN HARJO & KAWENNÁHERE DEVERY JACOBS: Reservation Dogs, "Mabel"
2023 GARRETT WERNER: Abbott Elementary, "Read-A-Thon"
2022 QUINTA BRUNSON: Abbott Elementary, “Pilot”
2022 HANNAH BOS & PAUL THUREEN: Somebody Somewhere, “BFD”
2022 LECY GORANSON: The Conners, “Triggered”
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and public health conditions in LA County, the Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2021.
2020 AIDY BRYANT & ALEXANDRA RUSHFIELD & LINDY WEST: Shrill, "Annie"
2020 PETER SAJI: Black-ish, "Black Like Us"
2020 ROBIA RASHID: Atypical, "Road Rage Paige"
2019 MICHELLE BADILLO & CAROLINE LEVICH: One Day at a Time, "Hello, Penelope"
2019 MEGAN AMRAM: The Good Place, "Jeremy Bearimy"
2018 KENYA BARRIS: Black-ish, "Lemons"
2018 ALEX HERSCHLAG: Will & Grace, "Grandpa Jack"
2017 CHERYL HOLLIDAY: The Real O'Neals, "The Real Grandma"
2017 ALEXA JUNGE: Grace and Frankie, "The Party"
2016 PETER SAJI: Black-ish, "Please Don't Ask, Please Don't Tell"
2016 ROBERT CARLOCK & TINA FEY: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, "Kimmy Goes Outside!"
2015 CARTER BAYS & CRAIG THOMAS: How I Met Your Mother, "Last Forever, Part 2”
2015 ROY BROWN: The Middle, "Happy Halloween IV: The Ghost Story"
2014 MIKE SCULLY: The New Normal, "The Godparent Trap"
2014 LIZ BRIXIUS: Nurse Jackie, "Disneyland Sucks"
2013 JENNY BICKS: The Big C, "A Little Death"
2013 DEANN HELINE & EILEEN HEISLER: The Middle, "The Map"
2012 DARLENE HUNT: The Big C, "Taking The Plunge"
2012 CARTER BAYS & CRAIG THOMAS: How I Met Your Mother, "Last Words"
2012 LIZ BRIXIUS: Nurse Jackie, "Monkey Bits"
2011 KEVIN CURRAN: The Simpsons, "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed"
2011 ALEX REID: The Middle, "The Block Party"
2011 MYRA J.: Meet the Browns, "Meet The Racist"
2010 ROBERT CARLOCK: 30 Rock, "Believe in the Stars"
2010 JAMIE RHONHEIMER: How I Met Your Mother, "Happily Ever After"
2010 JOHN FRINK: The Simpsons, "All About Lisa"
2009 KATHY ANN STUMPE: The Bill Engvall Show, “Aloha, Raffles”
2009 SARAH TREEM: In Treatment, “Sophie: Week Two”
2008 DAVE TENNANT: Scrubs, “My Fallen Idol”
2008 ROB LOTTERSTEIN: The War at Home, “Kenny Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”
2007 JIM HOPE: George Lopez, “The Kidney Stays in the Picture”
2007 GARRETT DONOVAN & NEIL GOLDMAN: Scrubs, “My Way Home”
2006 NO AWARD GIVEN
2005 RICHARD APPEL: The Bernie Mac Show, “Eye of the Tiger”
2005 GARRETT DONOVAN & NEIL GOLDMAN: Scrubs, “My Screwup”
2004 WARREN HUTCHERSON & KRISS TURNER (Story by LARRY WILMORE): The Bernie Mac Show, “Sweet Home Chicago - Part I”
2004 DAN O’SHANNON & LORI KIRKLAND & BOB DAILY: Frasier, “Rooms with a View”
2003 STEVEN PETERMAN, GARY DONTZIG: State of Grace, “Looking for God in All the Right Places”
2003 HOLLIS RICH, BRENDA LILLY: State of Grace, “Love, Love, Me Do”
2002 JON SHERMAN & DAN O’SHANNON: Frasier, “Frasier's Edge”
2002 LARRY STRAWTHER: Malcolm in the Middle, “Traffic Ticket”
2001 DAVID GEOTSCH & JASON VENOKUR: 3rd Rock From the Sun, “Dick Who's Coming To Dinner”
2001 STEVE YOUNG: The Smart Guy, “Never Too Young”
2000 ERIC COHEN: Everybody Loves Raymond, “Frank's Tribute”
2000 BILL WRUBEL and AARON SORKIN: Sports Night, “The Quality of Mercy at 29K”
1999 BENNETT COHEN, EDIT VILLARREAL: Foto-Novelas, “The Fix”
1999 JEFFREY TICHMAN & SUZANNE MARTIN: Frasier, “The Kid”
1998 STEVIE RAY FROMSTEIN: Grace Under Fire, “Pills”
1998 DREW OGIER (story by ROSEANNE): Roseanne, “The Miracle”
1997 STEVIE RAY FROMSTEIN: Grace Under Fire, “No Help Wanted”
1997 ELLIOT SHOENMAN, MARLEY SIMS: Home Improvement, “The Longest Day”
1996 ALLAN KATZ: Blossom, The Date
1996 MARC FLANAGAN: Grace Under Fire, “Grace Under Water”
1996 ROB ULIN and KEVIN ABBOTT: Roseanne, “White Men Can't Kiss”
1995 JANE WAGNER: Edith Ann, “A Few Pieces of the Puzzle”
1995 DON REO, JUDITH D. ALLISON: The John Larroquette Show, “The Amends”
1995 DAVID ANGELL & PETER CASEY & DAVID LEE: Frasier, “The Good Son”
1994 SY ROSEN: The Wonder Years, “The Nose”
1994 AMY SHERMAN: Roseanne, “Wait 'Til Your Father Gets Home”
1993 GLENN BERENBEIM: A Different World,“Mammy Dearest”
1993 CHUCK LORRE and JEFF ABUGOV: Roseanne, “This Old House”
1993 CRAIG HOFFMAN: The Wonder Years, “Hardware Store”
1992 NAT KATLIN BERNSTEIN, MITCHEL LEE: Doogie Howser, M.D., “To Live and Die in Brentwood”
1992 MARK B. PERRY: The Wonder Years, “The Ties that Bind”
1991 CHARLES M. SCHULZ: Why, Charlie Brown, Why?
1991 DAVID M. STERN The Wonder Years, “The Powers That Be”
1990 NANCY MEYERS, CHARLES SHYER: Baby Boom, “Guilt”
1990 JOHN MARKUS & CARMEN FINESTRA & GARY KOTT: The Cosby Show, “Truth or Consequences”
1989 BOB RANDALL & BILL PERSKY": Kate & Allie, “Brother Can You Spare a Dime”
1989 CAROL BLACK & NEAL MARLENS: The Wonder Years, “Pilot”
1988 GARY KOTT: The Cosby Show, “The March”
1988 RUTH BENNETT: Family Ties, “My Back Pages”
1987 MATT WILLIAMS: The Cosby Show, “An Early Spring”
1987 DAVID LLOYD: Mr. Sunshine, “Pilot”
1986 MARC LAWRENCE: Family Ties, “Hotline Fever”
1986 GARY DAVID GOLDBERG & ALAN UGER: Family Ties, “Remembrance of Things Past”
1985 RUTH BENNETT: Family Ties, “Say Uncle”
1985 JULIAN ARTHUR: Gimme a Break, “Herbie”
1984 BLAKE HUNTER: Different Strokes, “The Bicycle Man, Part 2”
1984 SUSAN HARRIS: It Takes Two, “Death Penalty”
1983 HARRIETT WEISS & PATT SHEA: Archie Bunker's Place, “Relapse”
1983 PAUL PERLOVE: One Day At A Time, “Mrs. O'Leary's Kid”
1982 HARRIETT WEISS & PATT SHEA: Archie Bunker's Place, “Tough Love”
1982 DAVID POLLACK & ELIAS DAVIS: M*A*S*H*, “Blood Brothers”
1981 GARY MARKOWITZ: United States, “Point of View”
1981 HUGH WILSON: WKPR In Cincinnati, “God Talks to Johnny”
1980 HARRIETT WEISS & PATT SHEA: All In The Family, “Edith Gets Fired”
1980 KEN LEVINE & DAVID ISAACS: M*A*S*H*, Point of View
1979 REINHOLD WEEGE: Barney Miller, “Goodbye, Mr. Fish Part 2”
1979 ROGER SHULMAN & JOHN BASKIN: The Jeffersons, “984 W. 124th St. Apt. 5c.”
1978 MEL TOLKIN: All In The Family, “Archie's Brief Encounter Part 2”
1978 ALAN ALDA: M*A*S*H*, “Dear Sigmund”
1977 SETH FREEMAN: Doc, “Oldies But Goodies”
1977 BURT PERLUTSKY: M*A*S*H*. “Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler”
1976 BOB PEETE: Good Times, “My Girl Henrietta”
1976 ROGER SHULMAN & JOHN BASKIN: Good Times, “The Lunch Money Ripoff”
DRAMA TELEPLAY NOMINEES
2024 MERIEL SHEIBANI-CLARE, PETER MORGAN: The Crown, “Ritz”
2024 JOSHUA ALLEN: The Morning Show, “White Noise”
2024 ROCHELLE ZIMMERMAN: Station 19, “With So Little to Be Sure Of”
2023 PETER GOULD: Better Call Saul, "Saul Gone"
2023 DJ NASH & JAMES RODAY RODRIGUEZ: A Million Little Things, "One Big Thing"
2023 BEN VANSTONE: All Creatures Great and Small, "Surviving Siegfried"
2022 IKE SMITH: Chicago P.D., “Burnside”
2022 ANTHONY SPARKS: Queen Sugar, “May 27, 2020”
2022 REGGIE ROCK BYTHEWOOD & GEORGE DOHRMANN: Swagger, “Radicals”
2022 DAN FOGELMAN: This is Us, “The Challenger”
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and public health conditions in LA County, the Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2021.
2020 EBONI FREEMAN: This is Us, “Our Little Island Girl”
2020 RYAN MURPHY & BRADFALCHUCK & STEVEN CANALS: Pose, “In My Heels”
2020 SELWYN SEYFU HINDS: The Twilight Zone, “Replay”
2019 BRIAN CHAMBERLAYNE: Orange Is The New Black, “Be Free”
2018 DAVID BENIOFF & D.B. WEISS: Game of Thrones, “The Dragon and the Wolf”
2018 JOY GREGORY: Madam Secretary, “Good Bones”
2017 JOY GREGORY: Madam Secretary, “Waiting for Taleju”
2017 RICHARD PRICE and STEVEN ZAILLIAN: The Night Of, “The Call of the Wild”
2016 HAGAI LEVI & SARAH TREEM: The Affair, “Pilot”
2016 MATT WARD: Madam Secretary, “Face the Nation”
2015 JASON KATIMS: Parenthood, “The Pontiac”
2015 VEENA SUD: The Killing, “Six Minutes”
2015 NIC PIZZOLATTO: True Detective, “Form and Void”
2014 DAVID SHORE, ELI ATTIE & PETER BLAKE: House, “Everybody Dies”
2014 KAREN STRUCK & DAVID E. KELLEY: Monday Mornings, “Truth or Consequences”
2013 BRIAN BURNS: Blue Bloods, “The Job”
2013 KERRY EHRIN: Parenthood, “Remember Me? I’m The One Who Loves You”
2012 JEANETTE COLLINS & MIMI FRIEDMAN: Drop Dead Diva, “Good Grief”
2012 RUSSEL FRIEND, GARRETT LERNER & PETER BLAKE: House, “Help Me”
2012 BRUCE MCKENNA & ROBERT SCHENKKAN: The Pacific, “Home”
2011 J. ROBERTS & VINCE GILLIGAN: Breaking Bad, “Peekaboo”
2011 PETER NOWALK: Grey’s Anatomy, “Give Peace a Chance”
2011 WARREN LEIGHT: In Treatment, “Walter: Week Six"
2011 WARREN HUTCHERSON: Men of a Certain Age, “Father's Fraternity”
2010 DAVID ZABEL: ER, ”Heal Thyself"
2010 DAVID HOSELTON: House, ”Unfaithful"
2010 AMANDA GREEN: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, “Swing”
2009 DAVID E. KELLEY & SUSAN DICKES (story by DAVID E. KELLEY & SUSAN DICKES & JILL GOLDSMITH): Boston Legal, “Roe V. Wade: The Musical”
2009 GEORGE PELECANOS (story by DAVID SIMON & GEORGE PELECANOS): The Wire, “Late Editions”
2008 DORIS EGAN: House, “House vs. God”
2008 ELI ATTIE & JOHN WELLS: The West Wing, “Election Day Part 2”
2007 JANINE SHERMAN BARROIS: ER, “Darfur”
2007 JONATHAN GREENE: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, “Ripped”
2006 DEE JOHNSON: ER, “Alone in a Crowd”
2006 DAVID SHORE: House, “Pilot - Everybody Lies”
2006 SARA B. COOPER: House, “Damned If You Do”
2005 JOHN WELLS: ER, “Makemba”
2005 JOY GREGORY: Joan of Arcadia, “The Uncertainty Principle”
2004 GRAHAM YOST (story by GRAHAM YOST & MYKELTI WILLIAMSON): Boomtown, “Fearless”
2004 JOHN WELLS: ER, “On the Beach”
2004 FRANCISCO CASTRO: Without a Trace, “In Extremis”
2003 LUKAS REITER & DAVID E. KELLY: The Practice, “The Honor Code”
2002 JOHN WELLS: ER, “A Walk in the Woods”
2002 PAUL ATTANASIO: Gideon's Crossing, “The Lottery”
2002 EDWARD ALLEN BERNERO: Third Watch, “After Hours”
2001 RICHARD KRAMER: Once and Again, “Strangers and Brothers”
2001 AARON SORKIN and RICK CLEVELAND: The West Wing, “In Excelsis Deo”
2000 SCOTT GERMILL: JAG, “Angels 30”
2000 LEONARD GARDNER: NYPD Blue, “Raging Bulls”
2000 PAUL MONASH and CY CHERMAK & FRANCINE CARROLL: Rescuers: Stories of Courage, “Aart and Johtje Vos”
1999 CAROL FLINT: ER, “Family Practice”
1999 ERIC OVERMYER: Homicide: Life On The Streets, “Mercy”
1998 TIM KRING: Chicago Hope, “A Time to Kill”
1998 KEVIN ARKADIE & SARA B. CHARNO & JENNIFER LEVIN: Chicago Hope, “The Parent Rap”
1998 CHRISTOPHER KEYSER & AMY LIPPMAN: Party Of Five, “Before and After”
1997 JOHN WELLS: ER, “The Healers”
1997 JAMES YOSHIMURA: Homicide: Life On The Streets, “A Doll's Eyes”
1996 MICHAEL BRAVERMAN: Chicago Hope, “Shutt Down”
1996 DAVID E. KELLEY: Picket Fences, “Final Judgement”
1996 DAVID E. KELLEY: Picket Fences, “Abominable Snowmen”
1995 MICHAEL S. CHERNUCHIN & WILLIAM N. FORDES: Law & Order, “Sanctuary”
1994 MARSHALL GOLDBERG: Life Goes On, “Bedfellows”
1994 DAVID J. BURKE & HANS TOBEASON Tribeca, “The Box”
1993 KEVIN ARKADIE: I'll Fly Away, “Coming Home”
1993 GARY DAVID GOLDBERG: Brooklyn Bridge, “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling”
1992 JOHN WELLS: China Beach, “One Small Step”
1992 JOSEPH DOUGHERTY: Thirtysomething, “Fighting the Cold”
1991 JOHN WELLS: China Beach, “Dear China Beach”
1991 GEORGIA JEFFRIES: China Beach, “How to Stay Alive in Vietnam”
1990 JOHN SACRET YOUNG and WILLIAM BROYLES JR.: China Beach, “Lost and Found”
1990 JOSEPH DOUGHERTY: Thirtysomething, “Elliot's Dad”
1990 SUSAN SHILLIDAY: Thirtysomething, “In Re: The Marriage of Weston”
1989 KATHRYN FORD: Cagney and Lacey, “Don't I Know You”
1989 SHELLY LIST & JONATHAN ESTRIN: Cagney and Lacey, “Turn, Turn, Turn Part 2”
1988 CHANNING GIBSON: St. Elsewhere, “A Room with a View”
1988 JOHN MASIUS & TOM FONTANA: St. Elsewhere, “Where There's Hope, There's Crosby”
1987 CHANNING GIBSON and JOHN MASIUS: St. Elsewhere, “Sanctuary”
1987 BRUCE FRANKLIN SINGER: Moonlighting, “Every Daughter's Father Is A Virgin”
1986 GEORGIA JEFFRIES: Cagney and Lacey, “An Unusual Occurrence”
1986 DAVID MILCH & ROGER DIRECTOR: Hill Street Blues, “Watt a Way to Go”
1985 JOHN MASIUS & TOM FONTANA: St. Elsewhere, “All About Eve”
1985 JOHN MASIUS & TOM FONTANA: St. Elsewhere, “Ties That Bond”
1984 LINDA ELSTAD: Fame, “Solo Song”
1984 TOM FONTANA: St. Elsewhere, “Rain”
1983 JOHNNY DAWKINS: Theatre For Young Americans, “The Wave”
1983 MICHAEL WAGNER: Hill Street Blues, “The World According to Freedom”
1982 BID FREEMAN: Lou Grant, “Streets”
1982 JOHN FALSEY and JOSHUA BRAND: The White Shadow, “Reunion Part 2”
1981 MARION HARGROVE: The Waltons, “The Remembrance”
1981 MARC RUBIN: The White Shadow, “The Death of Me Yet”
1980 JAMES LEE BARRETT: Stubby Pringle's Christmas
1980 MICHELLE GALLERY: Lou Grant, “Dying”
1979 CAROL EVAN MACKEAND: Family, “The Princess in the Tower”
1979 LANFORD WILSON: Taxi
1978 JAMES LEE: Roots, “Show #3”
1978 JACK MILLER: The Waltons, “The Pony Cart”
1977 NIGEL MCKEAND and CAROL EVAN MCKEAND: Family, “A Right and Proper Goodbye”
1977 KATHLEEN HITE: The Waltons, “The Sermon”
1976 RUSSELL THACHER: The Cay
1976 HINDI BROOKS: The Waltons, “The Romance”
LIMITED SERIES TELEPLAY
This category was previously referred to as the “Limited Series, TV Movie, or Special” Category
2024 STEVEN KNIGHT: All the Light We Cannot See, “Episode 1”
2024 PARK CHAN-WOOK & DON MCKELLAR: The Sympathizer, “Endings Are Hard, Aren’t They?”
2024 ERICA LIPEZ: We Were the Lucky Ones, “Rio”
2023 BRIAN SAVELSON: Little America, "Paper Piano"
2023 LEE EISENBERG & IDIL IBRAHIM: Little America, "Camel on a Stick"
2023 MICHAEL NANKIN and BARBARA NANCE: An Amish Sin
2022 RACHELLE WILLIAMS-BENARY & SAM BOYD: Love Life: “Mia Hines”
2022 MOLLY SMITH METZLER: Maid: “Snaps”
2022 JARED FRIEDER: Three Months
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and public health conditions in LA County, the Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2021.
2020 NIC PIZZOLATTO: True Detective, "Now Am Found"
2020 CRAIG MAZIN: Chernobyl ("Vichnaya Pamyat") (HBO / Sky UK)
2020 DON NICHOLL, MICHAEL ROSS, BENARD WEST, BARRY HARMAN, HARVE BROSTEN: Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's All in the Family and The Jeffersons
90 MINUTE NOMINEES
This category was paused after 2015.
2015 LARRY KRAMER: The Normal Heart
2015 RICHARD CURTIS: Mary And Martha
2015 RICHARD FRIEDENBERG: Ring Of Fire
2014 LIGIAH VILLALOBOS: Hallmark Hall of Fame, “Firelight”
2014 ELIZABETH HUNTER: Abducted: The Carlina White Story
2014 SHEM BITTERMAN & RON HUTCHINSON: Betty and Coretta
2013 DAVID SELTZER: Cinema Verite
2013 CAMILLE THOMASSON: Hallmark Hall of Fame, “Beyond the Blackboard”
2013 MITCH ALBOM: Hallmark Hall of Fame, “Have a Little Faith”
2012 GEORGE STEVENS, JR.: Thurgood
2012 TEENA BOOTH: Reviving Ophelia
2012 MICHAEL BORTMAN: Taken From Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story
2011 CHRISTOPHER MONGER & WILLIAM MERRITT JOHNSON: Temple Grandin
2011 MICKY LEVY & TEENA BOOTH: Amish Grace
2011 PAULA MILNE: Endgame
2010 MICHAEL R. STROBL and ROSS KATZ: Taking Chance
2010 JOHN PIELMEIER: Gifted Hands
2010 DUSTIN LANCE BLACK (story by PARIS BARCLAY and DUSTIN LANCE BLACK): Pedro
2009 KAREN LAGASSE STRUCK: Charlie & Me
2009 ANN PEACOCK and DANIEL PETRIE JR. and CAMILLE THOMASSON Hallmark Hall of Fame, "Pictures of Hollis Woods"
2009 JOHN WIERICK A Life Interrupted
2008 ABI MORGAN: Tsunami, The Aftermath - Part II
2008 NANCEY SILVERS: Why I Wore Lipstick To My Mastectomy
2007 STEPHEN HARRIGAN: The Colt
2007 MARGARET NAGLE: Warm Springs
2006 LIONEL CHETWYND: Ike: Countdown to D-Day
2006 JEFF ARCH: Saving Milly
2005 SALLY ROBINSON and EUGENIA BOSTWICK SINGER & RAYMOND SINGER and JENNIFER FRIEDES: Iron Jawed Angels
2005 JONATHAN ESTRIN: Jasper, Texas
2004 DANIEL GIAT: Path to War
2004 WILLIAM H. MACY & STEVEN SCHACHTER : Door to Door
2003 JOHN WIERICK: Crossed Over
2003 PARIS QUALLES: The Rosa Parks Story
2002 SUZETTE COUTURE: Jesus, Night Two
2002 SUSAN COOPER: Jewel
2001 DAVID ALEXANDER: Anya's Bell
2001 MICHAEL ALEXANDER MILLER and RONALD PARKER: Joan of Arc, Part Two
2000 CAROL SHREDER: Mama Flora's Family, Part II
2000 CYNTHIS WHITCOMB: Selma, Lord, Selma
1999 DAVID MILCH & NICHOLAS WOOTON: NYPD Blue, “Lost Israel, Part II”
1999 CHRISTOPHER LOFTON: The Staircase
1998 ANN BECHETT: First Do No Harm
1998 ROBERT INMAN: The Summer of Ben Tyler
1997 WILLIAM BLINN: The Boys Next Door
1997 PATRICIA MACLACHLAN: Journey
1996 SUSAN NANUS: Heart of a Child
1996 NANCEY SILVERS: The Other Woman
1995 BARBARA TURNER: Out of Darkness
1995 BOBBY SMIT JR.: There Are No Children Here
1994 ED KAPLAN: For Their Own Good
1994 STEVE LAWSON and DALENE YOUNG: Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted
1993 ANN BECKETT: The Broken Cord
1993 JOHN WELLS: China Beach, “Hello-Good Bye”
1992 GEORGE STEVENS: Separate But Equal, Part I
1992 MARSHALL HERSKOVITZ (Teleplay), MARSHALL HERSKOVITZ & EDWARD ZWICK: Extreme Close-up
1991 WILLIAM G. BORCHERT: My Name is Bill W.
1991 SAM BLACKWELL & ARA WATSON: No Place Like Home
1989 JEFF ANDRUS: ABC Thursday Night Movie, “The Proud Men”
1989 CHARLES FULLER: CBS Dramatic Special, “A Gathering of Old Men”
1988 NIGEL MCKEAND and CAROL EVAN MCKEAND: Alex - The Life Of a Child
1988 BEVERLY LEVITT, STUART FISCHOFF: Miles to Go…
1987 CLIFFORD CAMPION: Love, Mary
1987 DARLENE CRAVIOTTO: Love is Never Silent
1986 CHRISTOPHER KNOPF: Not My Kid
1986 JOYCE ELIASON: Surviving
1985 MICHAIL BORTMAN: Memorial Day
1985 WILLIAM HANLEY: Something About Amelia
1984 JAMES SADWITH: Two of a Kind
1984 J. RUFUAS CALEB: Benny's Place
1983 CLIFFORD CAMPION: The Marva Collins Story
1983 RICHARD FRIEDENBERG: Bitter Harvest
1982 CYNTHIA MANDELBERG & PEGGY CHANDLER DICK: Leave 'Em Laughing
1982 LANE SLATE: A Matter of Life and Death
1981 WILLIAM HANLEY: The Family Man
1981 PETE HAMILL: The Gift
1980 FAY KANIN: Friendly Fire
1980 JOANNA LEE: Like Normal People
1979 LORING MANDEL: Breaking Up
1979 LEON TOKATYAN: The Other Side of Hell
1978 DAVID SELTZER, EUGENE LOGAN: Green Eyes
1978 CHARLES M. COHEN: Roots, “Show #8”
1978 JERRY MCNEELY: Something for Joey
1977 ROBERT COLLINS: Medical Story, “The Quality of Mercy”
1977 DAVID SELTZER, DAVID SONTAG: My Father's House
1976 JOEL OLIANSKY: The Law
1976 STANLEY R. GREENBER: The Missiles of October
CHILDREN’S TELEPLAY NOMINEES
The animated and live action children’s programming categories were combined in 2019.
2024 ALICE OSEMAN: Heartstopper, “Perfect”
2024 ROBB ARMSTRONG, CRAIG SCHULZ, BRYAN SCHULZ, & CORNELIUS ULIANO: Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin
2024 MATTHEW CHAUNCEY: What If...?, "What If... Hela Found the Ten Rings?"
2023 GIGI D.G.: Pinecone & Pony, "A Life of Adventure"
2023 KWAME ALEXANDER & DAMANI JOHNSON: The Crossover, "X’s and 0’s"
2023 LISA MUSE BRYANT: Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, "Hair Today Gone Tomorrow"
2022 KELLIE R. GRIFFIN and HALCYON PERSON: Karma's World: “Hair Comes Trouble”
2022 ALEX GALATIS: Snoopy Presents: To Mom (and Dad), with Love
2022 SASCHA ROTHCHILD: The Babysitters Club: “Claudia and the Sad Goodbye”
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and public health conditions in LA County, the Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2021.
2020 KEVIN SULLIVAN: The Loud House, “Racing Hearts”
2020 JOE TRACZ: A Series of Unfortunate Events, “Penultimate Peril: Part 1”
2020 SHAENE SIDERS: Niko and the Sword of Light, “The Automatron”
2019 BRIAN HOHLFELD: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, “Surf and/or Turf”
2019 LAURA SREEBNY: Muppet Babies, “You Say Potato, I Say Best Friend”
2019 DAVID LIGHT & JOSEPH RASO: Z-O-M-B-I-E-S
CHILDREN’S LIVE ACTION NOMINEES
The animated and live action children’s programming categories were combined in 2019.
2018 KEN SCARBOROUGH, RAYE LANKFORD AND JESSICA CARLETON: Sesame Street, “The Magical Wand Chase: A Sesame Street Special”
2018 MAY CHAN: An American Girl Story, “Ivy & Julie 1976: A Happy Balance”
2017 MATTHEW NELSON: Girl Meets World, “Girl Meets the Forgiveness Project”
2017 COURTNEY JANE WALKER: Degrassi: Next Class, “#TurntUp”
2016 JOHN D. BECK, RON HART & JENNIFER KEENE: Liv and Maddie, “Rate-A-Rooney”
2016 GRETCHEN ENDERS: Gortimer Gibbon’s Life On Normal Street, “Ranger and the Legend of Pendragon’s Gavel”
2015 NO NOMINATIONS MADE
2014 ONE RECIPIENT, NO EXTRA NOMINATIONS
2013 ONE RECIPIENT, NO EXTRA NOMINATIONS
2012 NO NOMINATIONS MADE
2011 NO NOMINATIONS MADE
2010 True Jackson, VP, "The Rival"
2010 True Jackson, VP, ”Pilot"
2009 JOHN KILLORAN (story by DAVID DIAMOND & DAVID WEISSMAN): Minutemen
2009 CORY ROSENBERG AND BILL RODMAN (Writing Consultant, IRA FRITZ): Sheira & Loli's Dittydoodle Works, “Sacrifice"
2008 DOREEN SPICER and REGINA HICKS & KARIN GIST: Jump in!
2008 ANNA SANDOR: Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front
2007 ANNA SANDOR: Felicity: An American Girl Adventure
2007 PETER BARSOCCHINI: High School Musical
2006 MARJORIE SCHWARTZ NIELSEN: Buffalo Dreams
2006 CHRISTOPHER FAY: Carry Me Home
2005 JOEL SILVERMAN and JOEL KAUFFMANN & DONALD C. YOST: Full-Court Miracle
2005 CHRIS NOLAN & LAURIE NOLAN and STEVE BLOOM and STU KRIEGER: Going to the Mat
2004 MICHAEL NOLIN & JACK ZURIA & MARK ZASLOVE: Maniac Magee
2004 CHRISTOPHER REED & CYNTHIA CARLE: You Wish!
2003 GARY ROSENKRANZ: The Brothers Garcia, “The Student Buddy”
2002 DARYL NICKENS: The Famous Jett Jackson, “Lost and Found”
2002 JOSEPH MAURER: The Sandy Bottom Orchestra
2001 JANA VEVERKA: Caitlin's Way, “Stray”
2001 ANN SLOAN & DOUG SLOAN: Johnny Tsunami
2000 TOM TENOWICH: City Guys, “Gift of Friendship”
1999 RENEE PALYO & BENNETT TRAMER: Saved By The Bell, “Putting Up Walls”
1999 JEFF STETSON: Nickelodeon Sports Theater with Shaquille O'Neal, “First Time”
1998 TONY GEISS: Sesame Street, “Miles' Family Reunion”
1998 SAUL TURTELTAUB: Shari's Passover Surprise
1997 MARK GREENHALGH, MATTHEW BALL: ABC Afterschool Special, “The Secret of Lizard Woman”
1997 COURTNEY FLAVIN: ABC Afterschool Special, “Educating Mom”
1996 CAROL STARR SCHNEIDER, DAVID J. EAGLE: ABC Afterschool Special, “Boys Will be Boys”
1996 DARYL BUSBY, TOM J. ASTLE: Adventures In Wonderland, “The Sound and the Furry”
1995 MARILYN WEBBER: ABC Afterschool Special, “Montana Crossroads”
1995 SUSAN ROHRER: CBS Schoolbreak Special, “If I Die Before I Wake”
1994 HANK SAROYAN: Weekend Special, “William Saroyan's 'The Parsley Garden'“
1994 DARYL G. NICKENS Wonderworks Family Movie, “You Must Remember This”
1993 JOSEPH MAURER: CBS Schoolbreak Special, “Dedicated to the One I Love”
1993 PAMELA DOUGLAS: CBS Schoolbreak Special, “Different Worlds: A Story of Interracial Love”
1993 BENNETT TRAMER: Saved By The Bell, “A Home For Christmas”
1992 BARRA GRANT: CBS Schoolbreak Special, “Lies of the Heart”
1992 BOB GOOKIN: CBS Schoolbreak Special, “Malcolm Takes a Shot”
1991 HARRY LONGSTREET & RENEE LONGSTREET: CBS Schoolbreak Special, “Frog Girl: The Jenifer Grahm Story”
1990 HARMON, BRUCE, DONALD MCDONALD: ABC Afterschool Special, “Date Rape”
1990 BRUCE HARMON: ABC Afterschool Special, “Taking a Stand”
1989 GEORGE LEFFERTS: CBS Schoolbreak Special, “Never Say Goodbye”
1989 VICTORIA HOCKBERG: ABC Afterschool Special, “Just a Regular Kid: An Aids Story”
1988 JEANNE BETANCOURT: ABC Afterschool Special, “Teen Father”
1988 PAUL W. COOPER: CBS Schoolbreak Special, “What if I’m Gay”
1987 JEANNE BETANCOURT: ABC Afterschool Special, “Don't Touch”
1987 ALAN L. GANSBERG and JUDITH M. GANSBERG CBS Schoolbreak Special, “Have You Tried Talking to Patty?”
1986 PETER SILVERMAN: Contract for Life: The S.A.D.D. Story
1986 S.S. SCHWEITZER: Pryor's Place, “Home Free”
CHILDREN’S ANIMATION NOMINEES
The animated and live action children’s programming categories were combined in 2019.
2018 MICHAEL FOULKE: Splash and Bubbles, “Pearlene”
2018 CRAIG CARLISLE: Sofia the First, “The Crown of Blossoms”
2017 KEVIN HOPPS: The Lion Guard, “Never Judge a Hyena by Its Spots”
2017 MARIA ESCOBEDO: Nina’s World, “Nina’s Brother for a Day”
2016 ONE RECIPIENT, NO EXTRA NOMINATIONS
2015 NO NOMINATIONS MADE
2014 NO NOMINATIONS MADE
2013 ONE RECIPIENT, NO EXTRA NOMINATIONS
2012 ONE RECIPIENT, NO EXTRA NOMINATIONS
2011 NO NOMINATIONS MADE
2010 NO NOMINATIONS MADE
2009 KARYN PARSONS: Sweet Blackberry Presents, "The Journey of Henry Box Brown"
2009 DON GILLIES: ToddWorld, "Come Out Of Your Shell"
2008 EVELINA FERNANDEZ: Maya & Miguel: “Give Me A Little Sign”
2008 NADINE VAN DER VELDE: Miss Spider’s Sunny Patch Friends, “The Prince, the Princess and the Bee”
2007 JONATHAN GREENBERG: Maya & Miguel, “Miguel's Wonderful Life”
2007 PAMELA HICKEY, DENNYS MCCOY: ToddWorld, “Benny's Missing Chew Toy”
2006 JAMES STILL: Paz, “Things Change”
2006 PAMELA HICKEY, DENNYS MCCOY: ToddWorld, “Who's Your Best Friend?”
2005 PETER K. HIRSCH: Arthur, “Big Horns George”
2005 CHRIS NEE: Little Bill, “A Ramp for Monty”
2004 MARC ZICREE and ELAINE ZICREE: Liberty's Kids, “Common Sense”
2004 DOUG MCINTYRE: Liberty's Kids, Liberty or Death
2003 PETER K. HIRSCH: Arthur, “The Boy with His Head in the Clouds”
2003 MELODY FOX: Harold and the Purple Crayon, “Harold's Birthday Gift”
2002 MICHAEL BLOOM & ANDY MCELFRESH: Rocket Power, “Radical New Equipment”
2002 BETTY G. BIRNEY: The New Adventures of Madeline, “Madeline and the Giants”
2001 LIBBY BIDEAU, SANDY ADOMAITIS & BART JENNETT: Disney's Recess, “A Science Fair To Remember”
2001 PETER COLLEY: Mythic Warriors, “Cadmus & Europa”
2000 ROBERT N. SKIR & MARTY ISENBERG: Pocket Dragon's Adventures, “The Festival of Lights”
2000 RICHARD GITELSON: Rugrats, “Autumn Leaves”
1999 SHAWN RYAN Life with Louie, “Family Portrait”
1999 JON COOKSEY & ALI MARIE MATHESON AND J. DAVID STERN & DAVID N. WEISS: Rugrats, “Mother's Special Day”
1998 JAMES STILL: Maurice Sendak's Little Bear, “Little Bear's Surprise”
1998 ROBERTS B. GANNAWAY: The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa, Once Upon a Timon
1997 MICHAEL PRICE: Santo Bugito, “The Carnivore Kid”
1997 BETTY G. BIRNEY: The New Adventures of Madeline, “Madeline and the Treasure Hunt”
1996 BARBARA SLADE: Rugrats, “I Remember Melville”
1996 LIBBY HINSON: The Secret Garden
1995 MARTHA MORAN: Madeline, “Madeline and the 40 Thieves”
1995 BRUCE SHELLY & REED SHELLY: Madeline, “Madeline and the Missing Clown”
1994 CHUCK MENVILLE: The Little Mermaid, “Eel-Ectric City”
1994 LYNN LEFLER: The Little Mermaid, “Message in a Bottle”
1993 DOUG MOLITAR: Captain Planet, “The Ark”
1993 KARL GEURS AND MARK ZASLOVE: The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, “Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too”
1992 STEPHAN MARTINIERE, PETER LANDECKER, AND JUDY ROTHMAN: Madeline, “Madeline's Christmas”
1992 STEVEN J. FISHER: Super Mario Brothers 3, “True Colors”
1991 TED FIELD: Dink, The Little Dinosaur, “Crusty's Baby”
1991 JEFFREY SCOTT: Jim Henson's Muppet Babies, “Romancing the Weirdo”
1990 GEORGE ATKINS AND JANIS DIAMOND: The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy
1990 PATSY CAMERON, TEDD ANASTI & THERESE NAUGLE: The Chipmunks, “A Special Kind of Champion”
1989 STAR KAPLAN AND MAIA MATTISE: Jim Henson's Muppet Babies, “My Muppet Valentine”
1989 KAYTE KUCH AND SHERYL SCARBOROUGH: Little Clowns of Happy Town, “Goodbye Grandma”
1988 ROWBY GOREN: Berenstain Bears Sat Morning Show The Bern. B. Forget Their Manners
1988 DAVID WIEMERS AND KEN KOONCE: Galaxy High, “The Brain Blaster”
1986 PAUL HAGGIS: CBS Storybreak, “Zucchini”
INDEPENDENT FILM NOMINEES
This category was paused following 2020.
2020 JOHN COLLEE & ANTHONY MARAS: Hotel Mumbai
2020 PAUL DOWNS COLAIZZO: Brittany Runs a Marathon
2020 CHINONYE CHUKWU: Clemency
2019 HEIKKI KUJANPÄÄ and MIKKO REITALA: Laugh or Die
2019 BOOTS RILEY: Sorry to Bother You
2019 GRAHAM YOST and MOIRA WALLEY-BECKETT: The Grizzlies
2019 CHLOÉ ZHAO: The Rider
2018 JUSTIN CHON: Gook
2018 MARGARET BETTS: Novitiate
2017 KEREM SANGA: First Girl I Loved
2017 ROB BURNETT: The Fundamentals of Caring
2017 SIAN HEDER: Tallulah
2016 RICK FAMUYIWA: Dope
2016 MICHAEL ALMEREYDA: Experimenter
2015 KAT CANDLER: Hellion
2015 IRA SACHS & MAURICIO ZACHARIAS: Love Is Strange
2015 PETER SATTLER: Camp X-Ray
2014 MICHAEL STARRBURY: The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
2014 JEFF NICHOLS: Mud
2013 SHELDON CANDIS & JUSTIN WILSON: LUV
2013 AVA DUVERNAY: Middle of Nowhere
2012 RASHAAD ERNESTO GREEN: Gun Hill Road
2012 JONATHAN RAYMOND: Meek's Cutoff
2011 LISA CHOLODENKO & STUART BLUMBERG: The Kids Are All Right
2011 TANYA HAMILTON: Night Catches Us
2010 MARIE NOËLLE: The Anarchist's Wife
2010 SHANA FESTE: The Greatest
2009 ALBERT TOREES: Henry Poole Is Here
2009 TOM MCCARTHY: The Visitor
2008 NEWTON I. ADUAKA & ALAIN-MICHEL BLANC (story by NEWTON I. ADUAKA): Ezra
2008 ADRIENNE SHELLY: Waitress
2007 TANUJ CHOPRA, HART EDDY: Punching at the Sun
2007 GORAN DUKIC: Wristcutters: A Love Story
2006 DAVID L. PATERSON: Love, Ludlow
2006 DOUG SADLER: Swimmers
2005 ZACH BRAFF: Garden State
2005 NICOLE KASELL and STEVEN FECHTER: The Woodsman
2004 JIM SHERIDAN & NAOMI SHERIDAN & KIRSTEN SHERIDAN: In America
2004 PETER HEDGES: Pieces of April
2004 PETER SOLLETT (story by PETTER SOLLETT and EVA VIVES): Raising Victor Vargas
2003 PHILLIP GWYNNE & PAUL GOLDMAN: Australian Rules
2003 MARK J. GORDON: Her Majesty
2002 HENRY BEAN: The Believer
2002 REGGIE ROCK BYTHEWOOD: Dancing In September
2001 ROGER RUEFF: The Big Kahuna
2001 GURINDER CHANHA & PAUL MAYEDA BERGES: What's Cooking
DOCUMENTARY NOMINEES
2024 BERNARDO RUIZ & FABIAN CABALLERO: El Equipo: The Story of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team
2024 ELSBETH FRAANJE: Sexual Healing
2023 LISA HEPNER: The Human Trial
2023 RAZELLE BENALLY and MATTHEW GALKIN: Murder In Big Horn, "Episode 1"
2023 STEFAN FORBES: Hold Your Fire
2022 SHANNON KRING: End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock
2022 JULIA MARCHESI: Frederick Douglass In Five Speeches
2022 SMRITI MUNDHRA: Through Our Eyes: “Shelter”
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and public health conditions in LA County, the Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2021.
2020 ELLEN GOOSENBERG KENT: Torn Apart: Separated at the Border
2020 JENIFER MCSHANE: Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops
2020 RICHARD LADKANI: Sea of Shadows
2019 Concept by FIONA DAWSON, written by JAMIE COUGHLIN and GABRIEL SILVERMAN, directed by GABRIEL SILVERMAN, co-directed by FIONA DAWSON: TransMilitary
2019 Directed by LIZ GARBUS and JENNY CARCHMAN, produced by LIZ GARBUS, JENNY CARCHMAN, JUSTIN WILKES: The Fourth Estate, “Part 3: American Carnage”
2019 Story by DAVIS GUGGENHEIM, DEREK DONEEN, SARAH ANTHONY, directed by DEREK DONEEN, produced by DAVIS GUGGENHEIM and SARAH ANTHONY: The Price of Free
2018 RACHEL GRADY & HEIDI EWING: One of Us
2018 Directed by AI WEIWEI, written by CHIN-CHIN YAP, TIM FINCH & BORIS CHESHIRKOV: Human Flow
2018 LORENZO DESTEFANO: Hearing Is Believing
2017 TED ROACH: 120 Days: Undocumented in America
2016 LAURA POITRAS: Citizenfour
2016 JOSH ALEXANDER: Southern Rites
2015 JOHN MALOOF & CHARLIE SISKEL: Finding Vivian Maier
2015 ROBERT KENNER: Merchants of Doubt
2014 ALEX GIBNEY: Mea Maxima Culpa
2014 JAMES MARSH: Project Nim
2013 CINDY MEEHL: Buck
2013 YOAV POTASH: Crime After Crime
2012 MICKI DICKOFF: Neshoba: The Price of Freedom
2012 PHILIP SHANE & JUSTIN WEINSTEIN: Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey
2011 STANLEY NELSON: Freedom Riders
2011 LUCY WALKER: Waste Land
SHORT FILM NOMINEES
2024 MAEGAN HOUANG: Astonishing Little Feet
2024 ANNDI JINELLE LIGGETT: Jelly
2024 FELICIA D HENDERSON: The Rebel Girls
2023 JOSEPH LEE: Other Homes
2023 FELICIA PRIDE: LOOK BACK AT IT
2023 CHRIS BOWMAN & HUBBEL PALMER: Ninety-Five Senses
2022 NATALIE NOURIGAT: Far from the Tree
2022 MARGARET NAGLE: Leap
2022 LOUIS GONZALES: Nona
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and public health conditions in LA County, the Humanitas Prizes were not presented in 2021.
2020 KRISTEN LESTER: Purl
2020 EUGENE RAMOS: They Charge for the Sun
2020 SABINA VAJRACA: Variables
PBS/CABLE NOMINEES
This category was paused after 2003.
2003 JOHN PIELMIER: Sins of the Father
2003 ROBERT J. AVRECH: Within These Walls
2002 HERMAN DANIEL FARRELL, III AND TIMOTHY J. SEXTON Boycott
2002 ROBERT L. FREEDMAN: What Makes a Family
2001 JERRY LUGWIG: Dash and Lilly
2001 PHIL ALDEN ROBINSON & STANLEY WEISER: Freedom Song
2000 HAROLD SYLVESTER: Passing Glory
2000 BILL CAIN: Thicker Than Blood
1999 BILL CAIN: Clover
1999 LOMINIQUE LAPIERRE, CAROL KAPLAN: Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor
1998 WILLIAM NICHOLSON: Crime of the Century
1998 JONATHAN TOLINS & SETH BASS: The Twilight of the Golds
1997 DAVID W. RINTELS: Andersonville Part II
1997 LEE ROSE: A Mother’s Prayer
1996 BILL KERBY: Lakota Woman: The Seige at Wounded Knee
1996 KEN SAGOES: On Promised Land
1995 DENA KLEIMAN: Strapped
1995 SUSAN BLACK & LANCE GENTILE: State of Emergency
1994 JOHN MCGREEVEY: The American Experience, “Simple Justice”
1994 NANCY BARR: American Playhouse, “Mrs. Cage”
1993 WILLIAM SCHMIDT AND STEPHEN STEPT: Darrow
1993 CYNTHIA WHITCOMB: Mark Twain and Me
1992 SARA FLANIGAN CARTER & KEN KOSER: Sudie and Simpson